Category:Hopping Off

July 9, 2018

Let’s save five billion litres!

How much higher will the fuel price have to go before someone starts saying enough is enough? R20 a litre? R30?   The days...

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June 18, 2018

Bye-bye, bus industry! 

All that a strike in the bus industry will achieve is to sustain its slow implosion. Last month’s column welcomed the fact that civil...

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May 9, 2018

Advice for Solidarity

Just about every subsidised public transport organisation in South Africa could be regarded as insolvent. If government and municipal subsidies were turned off, and...

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April 10, 2018

Now Is Your Chance, Comrade Blade!

I’d speculate that at no time since 1910 has the post of minister of transport been filled by anyone seriously committed to making transport...

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March 15, 2018

Today, water … tomorrow, oil?

Cape Town’s water crisis and the cost of oil have more in common than you’d expect… Up to now, many people (including myself) have...

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February 1, 2018

Coming to a pole near you?

This is the 50th Hopping Off column and I remain humbly aware that I have repeated myself several times by now. So, forgive me...

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